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...members of the National Association of Manufacturers trooped into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week, the passwords were War & Reconversion. But as they sat down to breakfast, the first meeting of their 49th annual convention, they were told, in no uncertain terms, that the only job of U.S. industry now is war, not peace...
...says, "I have done as much as any woman my age [63*] could do." With her column to produce daily (she is assisted by a ghostwriter), a heavy schedule of voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly...
Later in the week, from the depths of a rumpled bed in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, beside the dictaphone to which she confides notes for her daily column, the fabulous Elsa admitted that she had been very angry with Mr. Knight. She could think of no one he could accuse of superficiality with less justice than herself. Her Paris party, she said, was not a party at all: "It was a very beautiful dedication." Perhaps, she added, Mr. Knight was angry because he wasn't invited. "Don't you think...
...meals in his hotel, two dozen napkins were stacked, by his orders, on his table; with them he wiped every dish and piece of silverware as it came from the kitchen. In his heyday, he lived at the Waldorf-Astoria and had a fabulous reputation as a host. He invariably took his guests to his laboratory and treated them to an electrical display, which included the then startling trick of passing 1,000,000 volts through his body...
...hours after his tour of New York City (see above), Franklin Roosevelt appeared in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue. The diners-2,000 members and guests of the Foreign Policy Association-were already at their tables. The organ struck up Hail to the Chief; the diners rose, stood for seven minutes until Franklin Roosevelt was wheeled in to his place at the center of the head table...